Attachment for display-figures.



W. H.- BEYETTE. ATTACHMENT FOB. DISPLAY FIGURES.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 26, 1911.

Patented Apr. 23, 1912.

WIT NESSES COLUMBIA PLANDGRAPN 60.. WASHINGTON. D. c.

UNTTED STATES PATEN T @FFTCE.

WILLIAM H. BEYETTE,

OF HOUSTON, TEXAS.

ATTACHMENT FOR DISPLAY-FIGURES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLIAM H. BEYETTE, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Houston, in the county of Harris and State of Texas,have invented a new and Improved Attachment for Display- Figures, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to display figures such as are employed in salesrooms and stores for the purpose of displaying garments, the particularpurpose of my invention being to provide an attachment which may beremovably placed upon the figure in order to display the garment toadvanta 'e.

Tiers particularly my invention comprehends an attachment of simpleconstruction and adapted to be cheaply made, and forming especially nopart of the display figure itself, but which may be grasped by theoperator and quickly placed upon the figure or removed from it, theattachment being provided with means for filling out the sleeves of thegarment so as to bring the garment, and particularly the sleeves, intothe approximate form in which it would be worn.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification in which like characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views, and in which Figure 1 is a frontelevation showing a display figure having my improved attachmenttemporarily upon it, one of the shoulder fillings, however, beingremoved; Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing my attachment as used inconnection with a pair of short arm sections; Fig. 3 is a frontelevation of a different form of arm section adapted for use with myinvention; and Fig. 4 is a sect-ion through one of the sleeves providedwith fillings for practically enlarging the sleeve and thus causing itto fill out the sleeve of the garment to be displayed.

The arm sections may be of difl erent kinds, and for convenience I showthree of these lands designated respectively in the drawings as 5, 5 5*.These arm sections may be made of any desired material, including sheetmetal covered with cloth, but in practice I find it convenient to makethem of thin tough papier mach covered with cloth.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. August 26, 1911.

Patented Apr. 23, 1912. Serial No. 646,115.

inafter described.

I provide a yoke 7 having a centrally disposed opening 8 and havinggenerally the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The yoke 7 is provided with avertical opening 7*, which is closed by aid of fastenings. The purposeof this opening 7 is to enable the yoke to be placed upon a figurehaving a large head. The display figure is shown at 9 and has a neckportion 9 At opposite sides of the yoke 7 I connect two sleeve members,exactlv alike, one of them being shown at 10. Within each sleeve memberI place a plurality of sleevefillings 11, 12, preferably two in number,as shown in Fig. 4:. These sleeve fillings are merely webs of cloth,each tucked up at its bottom edge, as indicated in Fig. 1, one of thewebs being longer than another. Additional fillings 12 may be addedaround the portion of the arm representing the elbow, or elsewhere, asdesired, to suit the ever varying styles. The result is that adjacent tothe shoulder of the figure there are three thicknesses of cloth, whereaslower down, about the middle of the sleeve, there are only twothicknesses, and adjacent to the bottom of the sleeve there is only onethickness of the cloth. The cloth webs constituting the sleeve fillings11, 12 are wrinkled or crinkled, that is, rendered fluiiy andconstructively thick so as to afford a type of padding. This presentsthe advantage that when a garment is placed upon the figure thusequipped, the sleeve sections 10, in consequence of this filling, willhave more or less expansibility or resiliency, and, therefore, will tendto bow outward in the sleeve of the garment to be tested, thussupporting the garment in the approximate position in whichit should beworn. The sleeve fillings 11, 12, are, by stitching 13, secured withinthe upper end of the sleeve 10.

In cases where I use the sleeve sections shown in-Fig. 3, the bottomedge which is shown at 14; may be connected with an artificial wrist 15.The same is true of the sleeve sections 5 shown in Fig. 1. In thisfigure two artificial wrists 15, 16, provided respectively withartificial hands 17 are mounted upon the lower ends of the sleevesections 5.

The operation of my device is as follows: Suppose a salesman wishes todisplay a garment by aid of the display figure 9 and my attachment. I-Ieplaces the attachment upon the figure as indicated in Fig. 1 so that theyoke 7 rests upon the shoulders, back and breast of the figure, the neckportion 9 extending upwardly from the opening 8 and the sleeve sections10 encircling the portions of the arm sections representing the forearmof a person, as will be understood from Fig. 1. The garment is nextplaced upon the figure. In doing this it is an easy matter to raise thearms, if desired, in order thatthey may be thrust through the sleeves ofthe garment. The flexibility of the yoke enables the arms to be raised,or otherwise moved into suitable positions to facilitate placing thegarment in position. The sleeves of the garment, when finally placed inposition, are not unduly puffed out and do not have the appearance ofbeing stuffed. On the contrary they are not baggy and distasteful inappearance, as the filling sec tions 11, 12, together with the sleevesections 10, fill out the sleeves and adjacent portions of the shouldersof the garment in like manner as if the garment were worn by a person.

I do not limit myself to the precise details of the device, as hereshown and described, as such details may be varied within reasonablelimits without departing from the spirit of my invention.

' Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is 1. An attachment for display figurescomprising a yoke to be mounted upon a figure, and a pair of armsections connected to oppositely disposed portions of said yoke andsupported thereby.

2. An attachment for display figures comprising a yoke provided with acentral opening for receiving the neck portion of a display figure, saidyoke being further provided with arm sections connected withthe oppositeedges of said yoke and supported thereby.

3. An attachment for display figures comprising a yoke having suitableconformity to fit upon a figure representing the human body, said yokebeing provided with a centrally disposed opening for encircling the neckportion of said figure, a pair of arm sections connected with oppositesides of said yoke and adapted to serve as arms for said figure, asleeve mounted upon said'yoke and encircling one of said arm sections,and filling members mounted within said sleeve.

I. An attachment for display figures comprising a yoke of suitableconformity to fit upon the upper portion of a figure representing thehuman body, said yoke being provided with a central opening forencircling the neck of said figure, a sleeve section connected with saidyoke, and a plurality of cloth webs mounted within said sleeve and ofdifferentlengths for the purpose of filling out said sleeve.

5. An attachment for display figures comprising a yoke of suitable formto fit upon the upper portion of a figure representing the human body,said yoke being provided with an opening for encircling the neck of saidfigure, a sleeve connected with said yoke and adapted to encircle an armof said figure, and a plurality of cloth webs mounted within said sleeveand of different lengths, the texture of said cloth webs being such asto enable them to fill out said sleeve' In testimony whereof I havesigned my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

WILLIAM H. BEYETTE.

Witnesses:

P. F. BENSON, WV. T. MCDONALD.

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Washington, I). G.

